NOTES ON CALF REARING. AQ 

The principal features of the treatment adopted at the 
Newton Rigg Farm in the first twelve weeks of the calf’s 
life are thus described :— 
“ As soon as the calf is born it is taken to a pen away 
from the cow-house, where it is rubbed down with straw and 
well bedded with the same material. In the course of about 
half-an-hour it is fed with about a pint of its mother’s first 
milk at blood heat ; no medicine is given, the colostrom con- 
taining all that is necessary both for feeding the calf and 
moving its bowels. Afterwards the following rules of 
feeding are followed closely : — © 
First Week.—Its own mother’s warm milk three times a day, commencing with 
about a pint and a-half at a time, and increasing to two quarts by the fourth day. At 
the third day the calf is taught to drink without the fingers. 
Second Week.-—Two quarts of warm new milk (not necessarily its own mother’s) 
three times a day. 
Third Week.—Two quarts of warm milk, half new and half skim (or separated) 
three times a day, with half-pint of linseed soup to each quart of skim milk. 
Fourth Week.—Ditto, with a handful of sweet meadow hay twice a day to pick at. 
Fifth Week.—Two and a-half quarts of warm skim milk three times a day, a half-pint 
of linseed soup to each quart, and a little sweet meadow hay after morning and 
evening meals; to be continued with gradually increasing quantities of hay till the 
end of the eighth week. 
Ninth Week.—Omit the linseed soup, and after the mid-day milk give a single 
handful of broken linseed cake, and a little pulped swedes (grass instead of swedes in 
summer); hay as before. 
Twelfth Week.—Omit mid-day milk, and give three-quarters of a pound of mixed 
linseed cake and crushed oats, and half-gallon of pulped swedes (grass in summer) at 
mid-day, continuing morning and evening skim milk and hay as before.” 
When the calf has reached the age of five months, milk, 
Mr. Lawrence says,may, if necessary, be discontinued, and 1lb. 
a day of mixed linseed cake and crushed oats be given with 
larger and increasing quantities of hay and roots (sliced or 
whole); but if skim milk be plentiful calves should be given 
one or two drinks of it each day, even up to the age of eight 
or nine months. 
Side by side with linseed soup, cod-liver oil has been tried 
at Newton Rigg as a substitute for the cream removed from 
skim milk, and has been found to answer admirably. It is 
administered to the calves in the following way :—One 
tablespoonful of cud-liver oil to each two quarts of separated 
milk to be given is measured into a calf bucket: the warm 
milk is then poured on it, whereupon the mixture is poured 
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